Biography
Antye Greie, recording as AGF and occasionally listed as Antye Greie-Fuchs, resides in Berlin and works as a vocalist and producer. She first came to attention as Laub’s singer in the final years of the 1990s, later expanding into solo production and numerous partnerships noted for conceptually driven electronic work. Born in September 1969 and raised in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, in what was then East Germany, she settled in Berlin in 1996 and formed the downtempo electronic duo Laub with Jotka, the alias of producer Jürgen Kühn. As Laub’s vocalist she appeared on a string of albums issued by Kitty-Yo: Kopflastig (1997), Unter Anderen Bedingungen als Liebe (1999), Intuition (1999), and Filesharing (2002).
Her first solo tracks under the AGF name surfaced in 2001 on the Neue Berliner Initiative release Constant Variable. After signing to Kit Clayton’s Orthlorng Musork label she delivered her debut album Head Slash Bauch in 2002 and followed it with Westernization Completed the next year. Both records combined musical experimentation with philosophical framing—Head Slash Bauch constructed around software code, Westernization Completed built from personal information—setting them apart from Laub’s more melodic, song-oriented material; AGF’s work instead favored abstraction and spoken delivery over conventional singing.
She established her own imprint, AGF Producktion, in 2004, which issued a 12" EP she produced for Quio and a reissue of Westernization Completed. Further releases on the label include the subsequent Laub album Deinetwegen (2007) and the third AGF full-length, Words Are Missing (2008). Additional projects encompass The Dolls (The Dolls, 2005), the Lappetites (Before the Libretto, 2005), AGF/Delay—a partnership with Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay) that produced Explode Baby (2005) and Symptoms (2009)—and AGF.3 (Mini Movies, 2006).
Her first solo tracks under the AGF name surfaced in 2001 on the Neue Berliner Initiative release Constant Variable. After signing to Kit Clayton’s Orthlorng Musork label she delivered her debut album Head Slash Bauch in 2002 and followed it with Westernization Completed the next year. Both records combined musical experimentation with philosophical framing—Head Slash Bauch constructed around software code, Westernization Completed built from personal information—setting them apart from Laub’s more melodic, song-oriented material; AGF’s work instead favored abstraction and spoken delivery over conventional singing.
She established her own imprint, AGF Producktion, in 2004, which issued a 12" EP she produced for Quio and a reissue of Westernization Completed. Further releases on the label include the subsequent Laub album Deinetwegen (2007) and the third AGF full-length, Words Are Missing (2008). Additional projects encompass The Dolls (The Dolls, 2005), the Lappetites (Before the Libretto, 2005), AGF/Delay—a partnership with Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay) that produced Explode Baby (2005) and Symptoms (2009)—and AGF.3 (Mini Movies, 2006).
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